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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 9/10/2017 10:46 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:20:25 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 9/10/2017 5:59 PM, wrote:
Cool the eye wall just went over us and so far so good. I lost some
screen panels but the cage is OK. The trees took a beating tho. One
fichus tree needed killing and I did not want to pay $500 for a hort
dumpster so I guess Lee County will haul it away for free if I can
drag it out to the curb. Now I am waiting to see how the surge works
out. Broke out the single barrel bourbon about the time the eye wall
came in.
Harry will be happy that the tiki bars are OK.
I have pix and video but I will need to get power to the router to see
if my DSL is up. It has not been by first priority
I am still happy I have a landline tho. Dial up Greg out

That's good news. I was watching some of the nuts on the Weather
Channel standing in the eyewall and then the eye as it passed over
Naples and was thinking about how you would fare as it moved a bit more
north. It veered more easterly as it left Naples which may have spared
you from the worst of the strong, upper right side quadrant.

We got around 11 o'clock (position) on the eye if 0000 was the
direction of travel. Still pretty exciting. I was running a video
camera as the eye went over but I have not processed it yet. I am on
the generator now but I am just running off cords. I want to wait
until the storm is gone to connect it to the house hookup because that
is exposed. I am hoping FPL will get me going pretty soon tho. This
generator is thirsty.

Glad you made it without any major damage to your house. Wilma was my
first experience going through the eye wall and then part of the eye.
Your're right. It gets exciting, especially when you are in a stick
house. The one we had in Jupiter was built post Andrew though and was
built to 150 mph wind codes. Only damage was a few concrete roof
shingles that time. It was much worse during one of the earlier
hurricanes (Charlie or Francis - can't remember which one) because the
doors blew open and the interior got soaked. We weren't there for that
one but fortunately our neighbors got a contractor to come in
immediately. He ripped up all the upstairs carpeting, cut out any wet
sheetrock and got the place dried out in a hurry. Never had to deal
with mold, etc.